Thanks, Robert. That makes a lot of sense for the case that I described above. I removed plymouth and plymouth-x11 and booted 30 times without it happening again. Booting with radeon.modeset=0 and my custom kernel, both very problematic in the past, worked fine as well.
Can plymouth cause this problem well after login after Enter has been pressed many times into the GUI session? I would think plymouthd would be gone by then. This just happened to me with plymouth reinstalled. For some reason the GUI was on VT1 rather than VT7. Immediately after it happened I checked for the plymouthd process and it wasn't running. Perhaps this is what happened to OP Marc. He didn't say that the first "enter" press caused X to crash, I just assumed he was experiencing what I was sometimes able to reproduce, but perhaps not. If this is all explained by the bug the plymouth devs are working on please excuse the noise. -- X server crashes when enter key is pressed https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/529230 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
